100 Best Albums of the Nineties
by Rolling Stone (2010) 
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture. It was founded in San Francisco, California. These are their best albums of 1990s.
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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100 Best Albums of the Nineties composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1990 | 6 | 6% | |
| 1991 | 12 | 12% | |
| 1992 | 7 | 7% | |
| 1993 | 10 | 10% | |
| 1994 | 19 | 19% | |
| 1995 | 12 | 12% | |
| 1996 | 13 | 13% | |
| 1997 | 10 | 10% | |
| 1998 | 7 | 7% | |
| 1999 | 4 | 4% |
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| Nirvana | 3 | 3% | |
| Rage Against The Machine | 2 | 2% | |
| Radiohead | 2 | 2% | |
| U2 | 2 | 2% | |
| Neil Young | 2 | 2% | |
| Jay-Z | 2 | 2% | |
| Pearl Jam | 2 | 2% | |
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14 | 14% | |
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Other 1990s decade charts
A total of 27 charts from recognised sources are available for 1990s, with the 3 most prominent highlighted below. Additionally, there are 867 user submitted charts covering this period.
| Title | Source | Type | Published | Country |
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| 100 Best Albums of the Nineties | Rolling Stone | 1990s decade chart | 2010 | |
| Top 100 Albums of the 1990s | Pitchfork | 1990s decade chart | 2003 | |
| The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s | Pitchfork | 1990s decade chart | 2022 | |
Other charts by Rolling Stone
A total of 45 charts from Rolling Stone are available; the 3 most recent of this type are highlighted below.
| Title | Source | Type | Published | Country |
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| 100 Best Albums of the 2010s | Rolling Stone | 2010s decade chart | 2019 | |
| 100 Best Albums of the 2000s | Rolling Stone | 2000s decade chart | 2011 | |
| 100 Best Albums of the Nineties | Rolling Stone | 1990s decade chart | 2010 | |
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Musicslave 03/09/2016 18:43 | #161619
I really like Dr. Dre's the Chronic, but that album is NOT better than OK Computer. I actually think Illmatic is better than the Chronic. In Utero is way too high as well. Dookie should've made the top 10 easily.
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ledemoncleaner 08/10/2015 16:17 | #147447
ledemoncleaner 08/10/2015 16:17 | #147447
Most of this list if baffling. I've never had too much of an issue of their "best ever" lists, because that's hard to do. But they ALWAYS seem to fuck up the decade charts (2000s is EVEN worse). Crazysexycool over Violator, Dummy, and Pinkerton? They chose Protection as the best Massive Attack album of the 90s? The Soft Bulletin barely made the list? Not a single Modest Mouse album? The Chronic over OK Computer? Selected Ambient Works II over the the original?
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Grzywa 06/20/2014 12:10 | #114868
Grzywa 06/20/2014 12:10 | #114868
Should have been called "100 Best American Albums of the Nineties". So the only things to have come out of UK in 90s that deserved top 40 were Radiohead and Oasis ? Ridiculous.
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Pierre0609 02/22/2014 20:00 | #104041
I can't understand Dr Dre number 2...
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gon2bed 02/17/2015 23:28 | #135188
Not that bad, the order is a mess and Dr Dre at number 2? Give me a break! Missing quite a few essentials too.
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